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Stokes is hotbed for trophy bucks

If a hunter wants a chance at a trophy whitetail, he couldn’t do much better than spend time in Stokes County. […]

Hunter ‘re-racks’ a little/big Beaufort County trophy

Bryan Hughes of Hilton Head still doesn’t know what happened the first time he pulled the trigger on Oct. 11. Sitting in a ground blind, looking down a 125-yard shooting lane in the middle of an 80-acre cutover in southern Beaufort County, he squeezed off a shot at a buck he described as looking “like he had a big fan on his head waving around.” […]

Lee County trophy is first Bag A Buck contest winner

Dan Kibler

Jason Boyd thought his hunting buddy was walking behind his stand the afternoon of Sept. 17 — that’s how heavy the footsteps sounded. But Boyd, “jasonb1988” on SouthCarolinaSportsman.com, turned and instead saw a huge buck coming through a stand of oaks toward his climbing stand. […]

Velvet trophy from Stanly County wins first monthly Bag A Buck contest

Dan Kibler

A tremendous, main-frame 8-point buck killed on Sept. 8, the first day of archery season, is the winner of the first of four monthly Bag-A-Buck contests presented by Leupold and Barnes Precision Machinery. […]

Orange County spits out trophy buck for bowhunter

Bill Howard

Brian Rhew has become accustomed to taking big deer on opening weekend of bow season. This year was no different, as Rhew arrowed a 146 7/8-inch 12-pointer on Sept. 11, the third day of the season, in Orange County. […]

Teen girl gets leg up on boys with trophy 8-pointer

Dan Kibler

Renn Guthrie, a junior at Orangeburg Prep, has got something most of her male classmates can only dream about: a trophy buck.

Guthrie, 16, took a big 8-pointer the afternoon of Sept. 12 in Calhoun County while hunting with her father, Jimmy, who had seen the buck shortly after the season opened.
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